Brief You have asked by the Auckland War Memorial Museum to design an historical house for an upcoming exhibit. You are to research and design a house that is typical of a particular time period and region. The design must be based on real examples. You will also gather and report on the building materials and techniques used in constructing the house. You can select the time period and region for your house.
Sample ideas:
Viking houses from Scandinavia, circa 800-1000 AD
RomanGreek villas in Mediterranean, circa 100 BC - 100 AD
American/Canadian Red Indians
Japanese/Chinese housing
Modern housing up to 1930s
Medieval Castles
1.Gather/Organise
a.What do I know about this topic?
·What do you know about Sketchup?
·What do you know about how houses have changed through history? Materials? Usage - going from communal to family orientated.
b.What questions have I got about the theme?
·What do I need to research?
·What do I need to learn to do this task?
·What do I want to teach someone about my chosen house?
c.What skills and knowledge will I be using?
·Research skills
·Design skills
·Drawing skills
·Communication skills - data processing
d.What specific resources are available for this topic?
2.Identify
a.Explain the task in your own words.
b.Investigate some examples (and your teacher will show you some too)
c.Discuss and list qualities of examples
·Look at four different historical housing designs and find three common similarities and three differences - one will become the house that you will create in Sketchup
·What materials do they use?
·Get a snapshot of each.
3.Decide
a.Prioritise your housing design ideas.
b.Explain your reasons for this order eg is the design interesting, challenging, is the historical period appealing to you?
c.Try out your ideas in a rough sketch labelling what tools you might use to create this house in Sketchup.
4.Implement
a.Start your design based on the information you have gathered.
b.Keep a regular record of your progress in a word document.
i.Outline any difficulties you are having and how you have overcome them
ii.Add pictures of your progress. Show your design at different stages.
5.Evaluate
a.What have you done really well?
b.What areas need improvement?
c.Compare what you have designed to what your original idea was
> 6.Communicate
a.Demonstrate your design to someone and get feedback
i.What are the special features of your design? Is there anything unusual about your house?
ii.How accurate is the house to the known examples?
b.How will you present your house to the museum?
1.Animation and scenes in a movie?
2.Powerpoint presentation?
3.Personal presentation?
4.Written proposal?
5.Website
6.Something else?
7.Learn from experience - your evaluation
a.Does this match the topic theme?
b.What skills have I learned and developed?
c.What problems did I have to solve?
d.How did I use the strengths of others to help me?
e.What skills will I be able to use in other subjects/activities?
Extension Task
·Find the region for your house on Google Earth.
·Use Sketchup to get the terrain from Google Earth.
·Place your design to see what it looks like on the terrain.
Google Sketchup Assignment
Click here for Part One of your Assignment
Before you BeginPlease work through the following tutorial:
"Go Green"
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/uk/la_ggrn_sk6mac
Brief
You have asked by the Auckland War Memorial Museum to design an historical house for an upcoming exhibit. You are to research and design a house that is typical of a particular time period and region. The design must be based on real examples. You will also gather and report on the building materials and techniques used in constructing the house. You can select the time period and region for your house.
Sample ideas:
1. Gather/Organise
2. Identify
- a. Explain the task in your own words.
- b. Investigate some examples (and your teacher will show you some too)
- c. Discuss and list qualities of examples
- · Look at four different historical housing designs and find three common similarities and three differences - one will become the house that you will create in Sketchup
- · What materials do they use?
- · Get a snapshot of each.
3. Decide- a. Prioritise your housing design ideas.
- b. Explain your reasons for this order eg is the design interesting, challenging, is the historical period appealing to you?
- c. Try out your ideas in a rough sketch labelling what tools you might use to create this house in Sketchup.
4. Implement- a. Start your design based on the information you have gathered.
- b. Keep a regular record of your progress in a word document.
- i. Outline any difficulties you are having and how you have overcome them
- ii. Add pictures of your progress. Show your design at different stages.
5. Evaluate- a. What have you done really well?
- b. What areas need improvement?
- c. Compare what you have designed to what your original idea was
>6. Communicate
7. Learn from experience - your evaluation
Extension Task